If you wanted to describe both the soil and what is growing on the soil, would you use both a surface tag and also a landcover tag? For example, if you had a sand dune stabilized by beach grass, would you use surface=sand and landcover=beach_grass?
-------Original Email------- Subject :Re: [Tagging] RFC: new key Landcover From :mailto:[email protected] Date :Tue Nov 16 11:48:51 America/Chicago 2010 On 11/16/10 12:43 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > no, that would be surface as well. I'd say the distinction is between > the surface and the coverage (which comprises the surface). > surface=bush or tree would not make any sense IMHO. surface=asphalt is > fine for the surface, the landcover would be the street which is not > only the surface of the street. my attempt at clarification: surface is used where the mapped entity is man-made (or modified, e.g. dirt roads.) richard _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
